New PC for Shogun II and beyond

[Primvs Sextvs Loverlord]

I wanted your inputs on this. I'm not really a computer buff so I don't wanna end up buying the wrong sort of equipment. If there are stronger alternatives within the same budget range of the following equipment, do let me know. Also let me know what you guys think:

Gfx Card: ATI HD 6850 PciXpress HIS-1024MB 256 Bits DDR5

Processor: INTEL CORE i5 2500K 3.30Ghz (6MB CACHE)

MotherBoard: INTEL DP55WG 1600/1333/1066 MHZ FSB (LGA1156)
SOUND - GIGA LAN 2xPCX SLOT DDRIII SUPPORT

RAM: CORSAIR VENGEANCE DDR3 4GB-1600 4GX1 (CMZ4GX3M1A1600C9)

HDD: WESTERN DIGITAL 1000GB 3.5" HDD 64MB Cache (WD10EARS)

Optical D: HP DVDRW 24X SATA (1260i)

Power Sup: COOLER MASTER GX SERIES 750W RS-750-ACAA-E3

Casing: ANTEC CHASSIS SIX HUNDRED SE

Cooling: COOLER MASTER (COOLING SOLUTION) HYPER 212 PLUS

[Ishan]

It's cool, at what resolution you are going to play your games?
Also you might want to purchase MOBOs from Gigabyte or Asus, MSI is also good, Intel is meh.
And about your HDD: WESTERN DIGITAL 1000GB 3.5" HDD 64MB Cache (WD10EARS)
That's Caviar Green i think if so then change it with caviar black this one sucks horribly i have been a victim.
It doesn't runs on 7200rpm.

[Crazyeyesreaper]

okay first wrong mobo 2500k is 1155 socket you have an 1156 socket which means its not going to work

that said where are you located in the world and are you building it yourself or having it built for you by an OEM aka Dell Acer HP etc etc. if your building yourself i can do a part list if i know your location and online merchants or E-Tailers.

fastest cheapest HDDs on the market are the Samsung Spinpoint F3 1terabyte drives usually cheaper then the WD green drives and they out perform the WD blacks.

[Ishan]

Caviar Black isn't outperformed by Spinpoint F3, those were old days the new drives are 6gbps ones while the spinpoint still remains 3gbps.

[Crazyeyesreaper]

that dosent mean jack , you do realize that Sata 3 aka 6gbps has higher overhead and all it really means is higher bandwidth so SSD's can stretch there legs, in avg read and write speeds only 1 or 2 hardrives on the market can saturate sata 1 speeds

just cause the caviar black has magical sata 6 as they are marketing it now dosent make it faster.

As it stands the new sata 6 WD black 1tb drive is the same as the Sata II wd 1tb drive what matters in HDDs, is areal density on the disks aka gigabyte per platter 2x 500gb platters are faster then 4x 250gb etc that and access times, those dont change between sata sata II and sata III, the drive remains the same in that sense and performance remains the same.

New Western Digital Drives using 500gb platters
http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Storage...ew/HDTach-3040
SpinPoint F1 and F3
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/sto...3-1tb-review/3

to make is simple averaged performance
WD drives
Spin point drives

So in essence depending on the Benchmark app used and the Sata controller the Western Digital drive trades blows with the samsung F3 in terms of Write speed while the Samsung Drive wins hands down in read speeds.

Samsung is $64
Western Digital is $89
faster cheaper cooler quieter and less vibration then the western digital drives. the only thing WD has is the way better warranty and after service support which mostly to me is if a WD drive dies i can send it in and get a discount on my next HDD, otherwise theres nothing to really make me buy WD over Samsung,

but in the coming months Samsung HDDs will be no more as there being acquired by Seagate. so im sure the samsung drives in the future will degrade in quality.

Eitherway the performance difference will be unnoticeable to 99% of users, only price really matters and in that sense at $25 cheaper the samsung just cant really be beat.


Eitherway this is way off topic i need the OPs location so i can make a list of actual compatible parts or can recommend something prebuilt in there price range if thats what there looking at instead.

[Ishan]

Spinpoint F3(32 MB cache and 3gbps) and caviar Black (64 MB cache and 6gbps) are marginally same that was my point as you seem to be exaggerating over Spinpoint by saying "out performs". Anyways i agree with the last post of yours.